The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-10-06
gneals.
North Carolina State Board of Agri-
culture.

District.
J. H. Murrow, 9TH Congressional Dis
trict. .
s. B. Alexander, 9th Congressional Dis
trict (elecD.
A. Leazer, 7th Congressional District.
Burwell Blanton. Sth Congressional Dis
trict.
DR.. c. D. Smith, 9th Congressional Dis
trict.
OFFICERS.
John Robinson, Commissioner.
T. X. Bruner, Acting Secretary.
C. w. Dabnev, Jr., Chemist and Direc-
tor of Experiment Station.
John T. Patrick, General Agent Immi-
grafton.
TRUSTEES OF TIE AGRICULTURAL AND: NE
.CHANICAL COLLEGE.
The members Of the Board of AgFicul-
ture. to whom are added:
w. S. Primrose, Wake.
G.. z. French, Pender.
H. E. Fries, Forsyth.
Gen. r. Barringer, Mecklenburg.
Elias Carr, Edgecombe.
STATE GRANGE PATRONS OF HUsBANDRY.
w. R. Williams, Falkland, Pitt county,
Master.
DR.. J. w. Seasons, Bethel, Lecturer.
w. H. Powell, Battleboro, Treasurer.
f. T. J. Ludwig, Mt. Pleasant, Secre-
tary.
COMMITTEE.
Rev. VIM. Grant, Jackson, n. &.
Capt. W. Fl. Powell, Battleboro,
n. T. Ridley, Boykins, Va.
THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS ASSOCIATION.
D- NJ T.nr old Snort0
E~dgecombe county.
Vice Presidents-W. R. Williams, LIST
Congressional District; w. a. Darden,
ID Congressional District; 6. Il. French,
Sd Congressional District; w. +. Green,
4th Congressional District; Fl. E.. Fries,
9Th Congressional District; is. Reid, 9th
Congressional District; w. II. Hobson,
eth Congressional District; Burwell Blan-
ton, Sth Congressional District; w. H.
Mcclure, 9th Congressional District.
3. F. Hester, Oxford, Secretary; S.
Ohio Wilson, Vineyard, and W. E. Ben
bow, Oak Ridge, Assistant Secretaries.
COMMITTEE.
d. Reid Parker, Trinity College, y.
McIver, Oaks. D. Mon. Mckay, Averas-
boro; L. T.. Polk, Raleigh, and c. Nc
Donald, Concord.
Y. c. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
w. G. Upchurch, Raleigh, President;
John Nichols, Raleigh, Secretary.
NORTH CAROLINA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,".
President-J. Van Lindley, Pomona.
Secretary-S. Ohio Wilson, Vineyard.
Treasurer-J. A. Lineback. Salem.
O,or1 For tho procc. Has North
Carolina more dogs than sheep?
More than $4,000 Grand Army men
attended the encampment in St. Louis
last week.
The production Of wheat in the
United States has increased nearly 800 per
cent. in 35 years. e.
The .Wadesboro Hatezigencer advises
the sixteen farmers clubs and alliances in
Arson to consolidate. Good advice.
The seven Anarchists Of Chicago, who
We're condemned thirteen months ago,
have been sentenced to be hung OF the
18th of November.
We paid Canada S2,290, 900 last year
for eggs, and yet there are people who
believe the only way to make money on
the farm is by raising cotton or tobacco.
-Iron-clad gun boats are no longer of
value in naval warfare. By the recently
invented dynamite gun, they can be
knocked into nothingness as easily as a
chicken COOP could by a columbiad.
Never in the history Of the State has
there been so much said Of building fac
tories, &c. And when this kind of talk
shall be shaped into action, never has our
good old State moved as it will then.
james A. Stewart, of Kansas, a clerk
in a drug store, was severely punished on
the 22d ult. for violating the prohibition
law. He was fined $4,000 with cost
and seventeen years in the county Jail.
On the 10Th inst, the boys are turned
loose on the birds. Can't some plan be
devised to make the killing and whole
sale destruction of English sparrows a
charming sport to our gunners and boys?
Great trouble has arisen in Ohio over
the matter Of mixed schools. The colored
children actually left their own schools
and demanded admittance into the white
schools, causing great. trouble. The